There’s an important truism regarding your professional life that you should always keep in mind: Nobody will ever care about your career development as much as you do. This is not to say that no one else cares at all. Most companies want you to do well, and should recognize the value of training and […]

Sometimes you should just leave well enough alone, but it’s not always that easy, is it? You go searching around, connecting to your employees on LinkedIn and Facebook, and then you start finding their Twitter feeds…ah, Twitter. What employees used to do in their blogs, now they can do 140 characters at a time. Yep, […]

A year ago, right about now, I was on top of the world. Literally. Finishing the 2016 North Pole Marathon was a dream come true, but it also represented the end of my journey to complete The Marathon Grand Slam (a marathon on all 7 continents and at the North Pole). From the time I […]

If you are looking at moving into leadership but not sure that you are ready, give some thought to managing interns. It can be a lot of fun, and if you mess it up you won’t scar them for life. Maybe. Many firms use interns as a way to fill out their workforce while also […]